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May. 24th, 2003 12:15 pmThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snow_leopard I have a shiny new AGP Graphics card. Unfortunately jellyfish (my computer) doesn't seem to like it. After slotting in the card into the AGP connector (that's the brown one near the processor, correct? - it the only one it'll fit in, anyway) and trying to power up, it does odd things. I've tried reinserting the card a few times, and it give a new error each time. The worst is when the power comes on but nothing else happens, no attempt to boot the bios or anything. Slightly better than that is when the bios beeps a few times (3 or 4), presumably to tell me it can't find my monitor, and then stops. Once I even got it to boot, although my monitor would only work attached to the old graphics card (which is a PCI device). Windows then claimed it located an unknown 'early PCI' device on my system, and asked for drivers, but refused to accept the graphic card drivers on the attached CD. I attempted to install the drivers by running the setup directly from the CD, but this claimed it couldn't find my new graphics card, and told me to up it in my computer, where it already was. Removing the new graphics card, my computer works perfectly every time.
Possible faults:
It's a dodgy connection - it appears to slot in properly, mind you.
The graphics card is faulty. But its brand new, dammit.
Theres a conflict with something else on my system?
My AGP connector is faulty. Possible - I've never used it before.
The BIOS/OS just can't recognize it?
Grrrr. I want my shiny new graphics card to work. Please? Help? *sweetsmile*
snow_leopard I have a shiny new AGP Graphics card. Unfortunately jellyfish (my computer) doesn't seem to like it. After slotting in the card into the AGP connector (that's the brown one near the processor, correct? - it the only one it'll fit in, anyway) and trying to power up, it does odd things. I've tried reinserting the card a few times, and it give a new error each time. The worst is when the power comes on but nothing else happens, no attempt to boot the bios or anything. Slightly better than that is when the bios beeps a few times (3 or 4), presumably to tell me it can't find my monitor, and then stops. Once I even got it to boot, although my monitor would only work attached to the old graphics card (which is a PCI device). Windows then claimed it located an unknown 'early PCI' device on my system, and asked for drivers, but refused to accept the graphic card drivers on the attached CD. I attempted to install the drivers by running the setup directly from the CD, but this claimed it couldn't find my new graphics card, and told me to up it in my computer, where it already was. Removing the new graphics card, my computer works perfectly every time.Possible faults:
It's a dodgy connection - it appears to slot in properly, mind you.
The graphics card is faulty. But its brand new, dammit.
Theres a conflict with something else on my system?
My AGP connector is faulty. Possible - I've never used it before.
The BIOS/OS just can't recognize it?
Grrrr. I want my shiny new graphics card to work. Please? Help? *sweetsmile*
